Grand Ayatollah Hussain Najafi is the only marja’ in South Asia. Based in the Sargodha district of the Punjab province in Pakistan, he was the first scholar from that country to be given the status of marji’iyya and is one of only two ayatollahs from Pakistan.

Source of Influence: Scholarly

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